‘The Wind Knows My Name’ is a reference and a refrain in the search for home

By Marcela Davison Avilés

Cover of The Wind Knows My Name

Isabel Allende’s latest is a tale of two child immigrants — a boy who escapes Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 and a girl who escapes military gangs in El Salvador in 2019 — and their shared experience.

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